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Alex Burchill writes the Lowdown column for struggling tabloid newspaper, the Sunday Sun. Circulation is in decline and the paper is downsizing and adapting to the brutal economic climate, and Alex's methods for unearthing stories become increasingly desperate. Each week he must come up with a shock-and-awe story for the embattled paper, and each week that shock-and-awe story somehow ruins his own life.

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Series

This title is part of a series
Lowdown

Series listing
Lowdown series 1 2010
Lowdown series 2 2010

Crew

Director
Amanda Brotchie
Writers
Amanda Brotchie  Adam Zwar  Trudy Hellier
Producer
Nicole Minchin
Executive Producers
Debbie Lee

Cast

Adam Zwar - Paul Denny - Beth Buchanan - Deilan Evans - Kim Gyngell

Production Details

Production Completion
2012
Genre
Comedy
Production Company
High Wire Films

Screen News

SELLING FORMATS: HOT AIR OR HOLY GRAIL?

Many options for format rights to Australian shows have been sold abroad in the past five years, but that’s been the end of the road for the majority. Where production has occurred, very few have gone to a second series in the same territory, and generally that has to happen for there to be any chance of real upside.

04 Nov 2015
By Sandy George